Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

A solid donor relationship is the backbone of successful fundraising. And how they feel about their experience of giving to your nonprofit determines whether or not they stay in the relationship. Yes, you have to think about what you’re doing when you send out emails, letters, and texts. You build it on purpose.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

According to a National Council of Nonprofits report , the vast majority of nonprofits operate at the grassroots level, and 88% have budgets less than $500,000. According to a National Council of Nonprofits report , the vast majority of nonprofits operate at the grassroots level, and 88% have budgets less than $500,000.

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iMarketSmart

AUGUST 16, 2023

Yes, we all want to meet with donors, have great conversations, build relationships, and win big gifts. How do you get your foot in the door? They may have donated to it already in smaller amounts. They may have volunteered. See strategies to increase survey response rates. Why do surveys work so well at this?

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 31, 2024

But assuming you can identify new major donors among the thousands of supporters, prospects, and prior low-level donors, how do you connect with them on a personal enough level to nurture them into becoming major donors? The lower-level donors you’re looking for are people who may have given once or a handful of times.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is the eighth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Strangely, nonprofits have been slow to embrace LinkedIn. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. LinkedIn Pages.

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iMarketSmart

MARCH 15, 2022

What’s the only thing better in fundraising than a major gift? If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you already know that major gifts provide the bulk of funding for most large and mid-size nonprofits. If recent trends continue , that’s only going to increase. A bigger major gift. Think of it this way….

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 23, 2023

wherever you are listening to this episode or reading this blog post! In Part 3, we will answer the burning question – how will I know if we are successful on social media? According to the Open Data Project , 87% of nonprofits worldwide use social media and 53% of nonprofits spend money on social media advertising.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 26, 2023

The noble dream Small nonprofits have needs. Suppose a friend asks for your help. Well, we don’t have one of those on the lot. You ask, “So, you’re waiting for a million-dollar sale. But you don’t have a million-dollar car to sell?” Often, it’s obvious. The furnishings are a bit ragged. The space is cramped.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 6, 2022

This news can be shocking to hear and might even make some fundraisers and nonprofit administrators fall out of their seats. Even more shocking is some experimental fundraising data you’re about to see. This is why so many board meetings involve discussions about educating donors. “If You have a mission. But it’s true.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

By Paige Kutliek , SEO Manager at GoFundMe ––a free fundraising platform for charities, people, and the causes you care about. To date, more than 50 million donors have given over $5 billion through the GoFundMe fundraisers. 1) Choose the right fundraiser images and videos. Collettey’s Cookies.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 10, 2022

Donors give the most money when the act and experience of giving produces stronger social emotions. Rather than simply saying you gave to a particular charity, you can point to a building, a person, a group of people, a program, or something else specific that your money made possible. This makes them want to give more.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 10, 2023

Socratic fundraising asks questions. Socratic fundraising can still work. Socratic fundraising can still work. It’s still possible to ask questions. The universal steps for a compelling donor experience are: Socratic fundraising guides the donor through these steps.[1] We have a problem.” “We

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 19, 2023

The dilemma is this: Having a reliable friend is valuable. Having a fair-weather friend is not. The fundraising game A charity can structure giving opportunities to allow heroic displays.[6] The payoffs are these: Each player faces the chance either to save (Player 1) or be saved (Player 2). Player 2 will die.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. And if you’re watching this as a recording, I hope you’re having a good day no matter when and where you are.

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iMarketSmart

AUGUST 9, 2023

Do they have the best skill set and mindset for this job? How would you know if they do or don’t? And then, you need to know how to spot it when it’s sitting right in front of you. Another stake concerns the money. Donors want a return for their money. That’s a lot of tough questions. You also lose the resources.

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Sure, asking for money is hard. But asking for an estate gift? Even experienced fundraisers can get squeamish. As Anne Melvin puts it, “For many of us, asking for a bequest is akin to asking, ‘So when are you going to die and what are you going to leave us when you do?’ [1] The right ask can be powerful.

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iMarketSmart

AUGUST 3, 2022

Scenario 1: You have 100 donors who have capacity to give a five-figure legacy gift, and they have a fairly high interest in giving something. Scenario 2: You have another 100 donors who have capacity to give a seven-figure legacy gift, and they have a somewhat low interest in giving to your organization.

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iMarketSmart

MAY 1, 2023

Predicting who is able involves many factors: Who is likely to have a shared future with me? Without this, reciprocal altruism fails. In this scenario, we have no future together. Without reciprocity, giving always loses. Invisible giving The game must have more than one round. We have no shared future.

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 30, 2023

To encourage these gifts, we need to have wealth conversations.[10] 10] How do we do this? How do we talk about wealth? How do we talk about wealth? More importantly, how do we get the donor to talk about their wealth? How do we get people to open up about a sensitive topic? How did you get started?”[17]

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Fundraising Coach

MAY 24, 2013

I asked him if he’d share with you a way board members could leverage their fundraising engagement. You can find more of Peter’s blogs at npENGAGE. It was a board member from KUNC, one of my local public radio stations. What if instead of calling me, the board member called my friend Dave.

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We thoughtfully craft and stage the fundraising ask. This emotional experience is all too common for fundraisers. It can make fundraisers avoid asking. When they do bring themselves to ask, it can make them ask small and safe. Just keep asking! How can that be? And the answer is … “No.”

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? The energy we all receive to survive and thrive comes from regenerative sources—which have mitigated the worst of planetwide warming and weather extremes.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 26, 2023

The noble dream Small nonprofits have needs. Suppose a friend asks for your help. Well, we don’t have one of those on the lot. You ask, “So, you’re waiting for a million-dollar sale. But you don’t have a million-dollar car to sell?” Often, it’s obvious. The furnishings are a bit ragged. The space is cramped.

Values 52

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 8, 2022

If you’re in the business of raising money for a cause, some on your staff (or your board) may have probably wondered, “What really leads a major donor to decide to make a gift to a nonprofit organization? What’s the not-so-secret formula?”. Is it reminding donors about tax benefits? We’ll get to it in a moment.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

You are asked how you are doing and can tell that the person asking genuinely cares. Your midwife greets you , and you remember how relieved you felt the first time you met , knowing that they were from your community. They talk with the whole family about ways to connect with the baby and how to support you.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 29, 2016

She is Vice President of Training at Pursuant where she transforms individuals into confident, successful fundraisers through classroom, custom and online training. Just ask Oprah!” The board member gleefully proclaimed—like it was that easy. Almost every organization I train is frustrated with their board. Think again!

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EveryAction

JULY 18, 2018

For some things, spontaneity is highly desirable, but any fundraising professional will tell you that planning a campaign isn’t one of them. Having a detailed strategic plan in place before embarking on a fundraising campaign can be a huge determinant of its success, even before the first dollar is raised. Let's get started!

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The Killoe Group

MARCH 14, 2023

As those in the nonprofit world realize, few things are as effective—or as time consuming—as fundraising events. These events bring in big time donations, and can have a huge impact on furthering the organization’s cause. With this in mind, how should your nonprofit go about effectively marketing your next fundraiser?

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Fundraising Coach

JUNE 19, 2013

At the end of the npVOICES interview with Gregg Carlson of the Giving USA Foundation, Steve MacLaughlin asked for Gregg’s impressions for fundraisers. So when you look at a couple of sectors, they have achieved pre-recession highs. And look for marginal increases that will set you up for success in the future.

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Fundraising Coach

MAY 9, 2011

It’s been three years since Ask Without Fear! I wrote Ask Without Fear! But I’m committed to making it ridiculously easy to get fundraising training. But I’m committed to making it ridiculously easy to get fundraising training. And of course, there’s an Ask Without Fear!

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

APRIL 30, 2013

For the month of April, I’m hosting the nonprofit blog carnival. I asked you the following question: What was the one, best piece of professional advice you ever got and why? How has it transformed your work? Communicating about the organization of the organization to insiders answers their who-what-when-where-how questions.

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iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Military forces have been used for humanitarian purposes for decades all over the world. And, without fail, it almost always involves air support and boots on the ground. Next time you budget for marketing, you really need to ask for more help and the right kind of help. >> How to get a $1 million donation.

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Fundraising Coach

MARCH 1, 2016

If it were, we would have an easier time addressing it. In the first of three blog posts on this issue, he describes what an ideology is and says the attack is "actually a charity ideology – an ideology that prescribes how the voluntary sector ought to go about its operations." The odd thing?

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Fundraising Coach

MARCH 1, 2016

If it were, we would have an easier time addressing it. In the first of three blog posts on this issue, he describes what an ideology is and says the attack is "actually a charity ideology – an ideology that prescribes how the voluntary sector ought to go about its operations." The odd thing?

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iMarketSmart

AUGUST 15, 2018

It always frustrates me to hear fundraisers or their consultants concern themselves with vanity metrics like response rates for lead generation efforts. . If your answer is that you’d prefer a 25% response rate, you might want to unsubscribe from your subscription to this blog right now. Honestly, I’m tired of hearing it!

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iMarketSmart

AUGUST 15, 2018

It always frustrates me to hear fundraisers or their consultants concern themselves with vanity metrics like response rates for lead generation efforts. . If your answer is that you’d prefer a 25% response rate, you might want to unsubscribe from your subscription to this blog right now. Honestly, I’m tired of hearing it!

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Ken Goldstein

JULY 17, 2013

As nonprofit professionals, we just love to look over our donor rolls and know that there''s a good percentage of those listed who will give again and again, year after year, and all we have to do is send them a nice annual letter. 77% of Matures send checks through the mail, while only 26% of Gen Y donors have. Man, do we love them!

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